408 Mr. H. Whistler on the [Ibis, 



31 October, 1917, killed a very fine old female which had 

 been seen about for several days and had given trouble to 

 my trained birds at exercise in the mornings. My only 

 record for November is a doubtful one. On 11 December, 

 1918, an immature female was netted — and afterwards 

 trained — by my falconer. Two other records for December 

 1917 refer probably to the same bird as the November one, 

 and were similarly not fully identified. One was reported 

 by my falconer on 23 January, 1918. All the above 

 records refer to Jhang-Maghiana. On 16 February, 1918, 

 I saw a female at Kot Wasawa. 



Falco cherrug chermg Gray. 



The Saker Falcon appears to be but a scarce winter 

 visitor to the district, as I onl}' personally saw one in a wild 

 state, which came up, attracted by the exercising of my 

 trained Falcons, to the lure and circled low over our heads 

 on 11 December, 1918, at Massan. Capt. C. B. Ticehurst 

 was then with me. I saw two partly-manned Sakers which 

 were said to have been caught near Sheikhan and Lalian 

 respectively in February 1918 and January 1919, and my 

 falconer reported seeing a wild bird at Wer on 5 November, 

 1917. 



Talco jngger Gray. (3 skins.) 



A resident, and generally distributed in small numbers 

 throughout the district, but by no means as common as in 

 the plains of the south-east Punjab about Hissar. 

 I found in all six nests of this Falcon as follows : — 



1918. 27 March. C/2 hard-set eggs ; the nest was some 

 2o feet from the ground in a tamarisk-tree standing 

 with a few other scattered trees on the plain near 

 Shorkot city. The nest was probably an old Kite's 

 nest — a bulky structure of sticks with a lining of 

 dirty rubbish. Eggs 48*5 x 38-5, 49*5 x 39-5 mm. 



1918. 10 May. Three well-feathered young in an untidy, 

 straggling nest placed some 18 feet from the ground 

 in a Jhand-tree standing amongst wheat at Jhang. 



